Title: | Measurement of WZ and ZZ production in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV in final states with b-tagged jets |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruehwirth, R Zaganidis, N Arneodo, M Bellan, R Biino, C Cartiglia, N Casasso, S Costa, M Degano, A Demaria, N Mariotti, C Maselli, S Basegmez, S Migliore, E Monaco, V Musich, M Obertino, MM Ortona, G Pacher, L Pastrone, N Pelliccioni, M Potenza, A Romero, A Beluffi, C Ruspa, M Sacchi, R Solano, A Staiano, A Tamponi, U Amapane, N Argiro, S Bellan, R Casasso, S Costa, M Bruno, G Degano, A Migliore, E Monaco, V Ortona, G Pacher, L Potenza, A Romero, A Ruspa, M Sacchi, R Solano, A Castello, R Arcidiacono, R Arneodo, M Obertino, MM Ruspa, M Belforte, S Candelise, V Casarsa, M Cossutti, F Della Ricca, G Gobbo, B Caudron, A La Licata, C Marone, M Montanino, D Penzo, A Schizzi, A Umer, T Zanetti, A Candelise, V Della Ricca, G La Licata, C Ceard, L Marone, M Montanino, D Schizzi, A Umer, T Chang, S Kim, TY Nam, SK Kim, DH Kim, GN Kim, JE Da Silveira, GG Kim, MS Kong, DJ Lee, S Oh, YD Park, H Sakharov, A Son, DC Kim, JY Kim, ZJ Song, S Delaere, C Choi, S Gyun, D Hong, B Jo, M Kim, H Kim, Y Lee, B Lee, KS Park, SK Roh, Y du Pree, T Choi, M Kim, JH Park, C Park, IC Park, S Ryu, G Choi, Y Choi, YK Goh, J Kwon, E Ghete, VM Favart, D Lee, J Seo, H Yu, I Juodagalvis, A Komaragiri, JR Castilla-Valdez, H De La Cruz-Burelo, E Heredia-de La Cruz, I Lopez-Fernandez, R Martinez-Ortega, J Forthomme, L Sanchez-Hernandez, A Villasenor-Cendejas, LM Carrillo Moreno, S Vazquez Valencia, F Salazar Ibarguen, HA Casimiro Linares, E Morelos Pineda, A Krofcheck, D Butler, PH Doesburg, R Giammanco, A Reucroft, S Ahmad, A Ahmad, M Asghar, MI Butt, J Hassan, Q Hoorani, HR Khan, WA Khurshid, T Qazi, S Hollar, J Shah, MA Shoaib, M Bialkowska, H Bluj, M Boimska, B Frueboes, T Gorski, M Kazana, M Nawrocki, K Romanowska-Rybinska, K Jez, P Szleper, M Wrochna, G Zalewski, P Brona, G Bunkowski, K Cwiok, M Dominik, W Doroba, K Kalinowski, A Konecki, M Komm, M Krolikowski, J Misiura, M Wolszczak, W Bargassa, P Beiro Da Cruz E Silva, C Faccioli, P Ferreira Parracho, PG Gallinaro, M Nguyen, F Rodrigues Antunes, J Lemaitre, V Seixas, J Varela, J Vischia, P Bunin, P Golutvin, I Gorbunov, I Kamenev, A Karjavin, V Konoplyanikov, V Korenkov, V Liao, J Lanev, A Malakhov, A Matveev, V Moisenz, P Palichik, V Perelygin, V Shmatov, S Skatchkov, N Smirnov, V Tikhonenko, E Militaru, O Zarubin, A Golovtsov, V Ivanov, Y Kim, V Levchenko, P Murzin, V Oreshkin, V Smirnov, I Sulimov, V Uvarov, L Nuttens, C Vavilov, S Vorobyev, A Vorobyev, A Andreev, Y Dermenev, A Gninenko, S Golubev, N Kirsanov, M Krasnikov, N Pashenkov, A Hartl, C Pagano, D Tlisov, D Toropin, A Epshteyn, V Gavrilov, V Lychkovskaya, N Popov, V Safronov, G Semenov, S Spiridonov, A Stolin, V Pin, A Vlasov, E Zhokin, A Andreev, V Azarkin, M Dremin, I Kirakosyan, M Leonidov, A Mesyats, G Rusakov, SV Vinogradov, A Piotrzkowski, K Belyaev, A Boos, E Dubinin, M Dudko, L Ershov, A Gribushin, A Klyukhin, V Kodolova, O 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Keywords: | CMS;Proton-proton collisions;b-tagged jets |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Citation: | The European Physical Journal C, 74(8): 2973, (07 August 2014) |
Abstract: | Measurements are reported of the WZ and ZZ production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at s √ =8 TeV in final states where one Z boson decays to b-tagged jets. The other gauge boson, either W or Z, is detected through its leptonic decay (either W→eν , μν or Z→e + e − , μ + μ − , or νν ¯ ). The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.9 fb −1 collected with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured cross sections, σ(pp→WZ)=30.7±9.3(stat.)±7.1(syst.)±4.1(th.)±1.0(lum.)pb and σ(pp→ZZ)=6.5±1.7(stat.)±1.0(syst.)±0.9(th.)±0.2(lum.)pb , are consistent with next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics calculations |
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URI: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-014-2973-5 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9273 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2973-5 |
ISSN: | 1434-6052 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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